20.05.2008 - 22.05.2008  /  Toronto, Canada

Sport and Social Change Conference  /  Meeting

The Faculty of Physical Education and Health, the Centre for Sport Policy Studies and New College at the University of Toronto will host a three-day conference on sport and social change in Toronto, Canada, on May 20-22, 2008.

To remember is to resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change
The conference, titled “To remember is to resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change”, will commemorate and critique the aims and achievements of past and current human rights movements in sport. Keynote addresses and individual presentations will explore the past and reflect on current efforts at social change. The participants will also be encouraged to suggest future directions and debate the merits of including sport in campaigns for human rights.

Uniting academy and practise
The Sport and Social Change Conference will bring together academics and activists, practitioners and scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives whose research interests touch upon issues of sport and physical activity, human rights and social change.

Topics
The conference will feature keynote addresses by leaders in the field, plenary panel discussions, as well as open paper sessions. Potential topics of discussion such as:
- International development and sport
- The Beijing Olympics and international protest
- Sport and (dis)ability
- Campaigns for children’s rights in sport
- Activism at the local level
- Gender struggles in sport

Location :
Toronto

Contact Person :

University of Toronto
Russell Field (  Conference Organiser  )
(  Canada  )
+1-416-978-5548
russell.field@utoronto.ca